Date: Saturday 1 June 2024 – Saturday 30 November 2024
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Philip Connard worked alongside some of the greatest artists of his generation, many of them leading British Impressionists who opposed the artistic establishment at the turn of the nineteenth century.
The work of early Impressionist artists like Claude Monet, Édouard Manet and Pierre-Auguste Renoir became hugely influential in the 1870s and ‘80s. Their approach was radical and challenged the established academic norms. Instead of narrative and classical subjects painted in the studio, they painted outdoors using bright colours, responding directly to the scene in front of them.
In the late Victorian and Edwardian period British artists flocked to the Continent to study the exciting new styles that were emerging. As well as Impressionism, the work of Jules Bastien Lepage was also popular, whose more sentimental paintings of peasant life, also painted in the open air, appealed to British artists looking to blend avant-garde techniques with more traditional subject matter.
This display of paintings from The Atkinson’s collection looks at the wide range of responses by British artists to Impressionism and some of the Post-Impressionist styles that developed in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
This exhibition features key works from The Atkinson’s collection, including paintings by Philip Wilson Steer, Walter Sickert, Wilfrid de Glehn and Henry Scott Tuke.
Inspirations: Poetry & Creative Writing Competition 2024
The Atkinson, in partnership with The Arts Society Southport, invited anyone over 18 with links to the Sefton Borough to take part in our third Poetry and Creative Writing Competition.
Responding to artworks featured across two exhibitions at The Atkinson, Philip Connard and Edwardian Impressionists, participants were invited to submit one entry with a maximum of 1000 words.
The competition was for poetry, stories, song lyrics, essays, letters, blogs, zines or any other form of creative writing.
The entries were be reviewed by a panel appointed by The Atkinson. The winners have now been announced and will receive a prize awarded by The Arts Society. Their creative writing will also be displayed in the Art Gallery. Please join us in the Art Gallery on Saturday 7 September at 11am when the winners will be reading their creative writing aloud, next to the artworks they were inspired by.
Download: Inspirations winning entries
Prose:
1st place: His Duty by Elizabeth Butler
=2nd place: Just For Tonight by Jayne Usher
=2nd place: Scrambling For Cherries by L.M. Sharykin
Poetry:
1st place: The Bathers by Phil McNulty
2nd place: Trick of the Light by Kenneth Payne
=3rd place: Boy by Pippa Witter
=3rd place: Ratcatcher by Malcolm Terry
Competition Partner
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